Coffin Bay

Another beautiful morning in paradise, we went for a walk around Surfleet Cove a mix of recovering mallee type scrub after the bad fires they had just a few years back and the sand flats in shallow bays. There is a good view of the fish farms and one was being harvested while we walked. A 5km walk and back just in time for some cold beers, lunch and packing up.

We drove to Coffin Bay and drove out to the National Park and camped at Yangie bay a little bay of weedy sand flats with no fishing. We had a quite night watching Camp Rock with the kids, the night are cool but not cold and we had no native animals attack our site today.

It’s hard to describe each morning by not just saying another beautiful day but it is true. I’m sure during our travels there will come some times when we whinge everyday instead. Kind of like we do about the fishing. We headed back to Coffin Bay and checked into the caravan park. Pretty busy but it is school holidays. We checked out the local town and bought some supplies, and checked out the foreshore. The Kids had a swim and snorkel.

We drove back to the National park today. We hadn’t travelled far before encountering our first casualty, A bogged Nissan patrol and camper trailer. It was our first chance to use the winch and it worked fine. He had let down the tyres on his car but not the trailer. Once it they were let down all was fine. There were 4 cars banked up waiting.

We carried on the track which was mostly not to bad with the odd really sandy section. Then onto 7 mile beach which we drove down no worries, with massive sand dunes on the left and beautiful ocean on the right.


We headed across the other side of the park to S???? beach for a spot of fishing. Just some little tommies and mullet. We drove back to 7 mile beach and had lunch, snorkelling and some sand dune climbing.
We drove back with another winch rescue and later a jump start. All these are great when they are not your vehicle. Tina drove back and we are both now becoming more experienced and confident in ourselves and the Tojo.